Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Acacia cerastes
Fabaceae Lindl.
Acacia cerastes Maslin , legitimate, scientific
Maslin, B.R. (25 July 1995), Acacia Miscellany 13. Taxonomy of some Western Australian phyllocladinous and aphyllodinous taxa (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae). Nuytsia 10(2): 173-175 BHL [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Mount Gibson Station, between Wubin and Paynes Find, Western Australia, 29 August 1976, B.R.Maslin 4226 (holo: PERTH 00137634; iso: CANB, K)."
  • Etymology: "From the Greek - cerastes, a horned serpent. An allusion to the serpentinous branches supporting extremely reduced phyllodes."
Briggs, J.D. & Leigh, J.H. (1996), Rare or Threatened Australian Plants: 91 [secondary reference]
Maslin, B.R. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001), Flora of Australia 11A: 539, Fig. 72E-G, Map 424 [secondary reference]
Maslin, B.R. (9 July 2001), Wattle - Acacias of Australia: - [secondary reference]
Pedley, L. (3 December 2003), A synopsis of Racosperma C.Mart. (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae). Austrobaileya 6(3): 456 [basionym]
basionym of: Racosperma cerastes (Maslin) Pedley legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Racosperma cerastes (Maslin) Pedley legitimate
  • APC Dist.: WA